When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

I knew Mrs. Liberace. Lee and I were great friends. I know the whole inside story.

I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck.

'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

Manic depressive is a disease.

Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.

I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

I was just like Jennifer Aniston with Brad Pitt when he fell in love with Angelina Jolie.

I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.

My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

It took, like, 30 years for Carrie to be really happy with me. I don't know what the problem ever was. I've had to work at it.

I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

I was just a beginner, and she and I were not in any manner alike, but we got along very well because I was in awe of going to school with Elizabeth Taylor.

I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!

My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.